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So, what's new?

The beta version of this interface is available to all schools at this time at no charge. Update your software, use the Groups button on the home screen to access a group and then click [Phone Dialer]. Then follow the six steps to create your phone dialer export file.

01-04-08 A special request has been added for Pioneer High School that others may find quite handy.

We have added a window that will allow you to quickly flag a group of students. You can bring up any group of students using the "Groups" button on the home screen. You can then flag these students by clicking the button at the bottom of the window that says "Auto Flag this Group."

For example if you find that you are updating your class lists at the change of the semester and find that you have many students who have no roll room teacher because they have moved away and are no longer enrolled. You can quickly flag these students as "Withdrawn" without having to edit each record one at a time.

Another example of a good use for this routine would be to daily flag all the students who are on Honor Level Four. Then at the end of the year, you can pull a list of students who have ever been on Honor Level Four.

Please note: To use this routine, you must first create the flag. Do this by selecting "Flag Resister" from the "Groups" menu and then click on "Add Flag."

Call us if you would like any assistance with this new feature or any thing with The Honor Level System.

801-441-4199

We know for sure that this problem has occured for some people when trying to enter comments and notes into the student record, as well as when you attempt to print reports for a whole class from the Groups window.

We hope to have found all of these instances and have corrected them. If you are using an older monitor, please update your software now. And let us know right away if you think your program is not responding to you or if any features seem to be no longer available.

A school was having a problem when a work station that had once been used as a publisher (but not any longer) wanted to update pages with the Web Page Engine even though the station didn't need to. Because the user did not have access to the web folder an error message was appearing. The software has been modified so that only those logged on as Publisher will attempt to access this folder.

To do this, begin by clicking on "Data Analysis" ... then the "Rank Order" tab at the top. First you must set up your starting and ending dates and check the appropriate grade level boxes. Then click "View List." This enables the "Show Award Bonus Frame" button. When you click it, you can select the number of Bravo points you want to award and the maximum number of demerits a student can have to receive the award.

12-19-07 A special request has been added for Pioneer High School that allows you to print student ID numbers as well as names on the detention attendance lists. To activate this option check item 5 in Options #3 of the site editor as shown at the right. This needs to be done at the computer where you print the slips and lists.

Schools running networking found that if more than one person logged on as a publisher at different times of the day some entries might be missing. This has been fixed.

In the past, if a user, working as an editor, made changes to student records when no publisher was logged on, those changes would not appear at the editor's computer until a publisher processed them. This update allows the editor to see his or her own entries any time (even though they have not yet been published), but only at the computer where the entries were made.

The school lists has been updated.

Also, the 10-09-07 update that allows schools to have records of students with the same name was also filling empty discarded records with the record of the last student in alphabetical order creating multiple records that were the same for the last kid in the list. This has been brought to our attention and fixed.

We fixed a problem that occured when the software on Subscribe Only workstations thought it should be calling up the Web Page Engine if the user had read only access to the web folders. Subscribe Only Workstations do not need to call this routine.

A change was made in the way we activate the Web Page Engine that should make it easier for schools who purchase this upgrade to get it started the first time. - Remember, schools who already have Full Networking can upgrade to the Web Engine with no additional fees.

Even if you are not using the Web Engine, this data can be very handy when exporting to a spred sheet where you can use its sorting and graphing tools.

An additional request from Hidden Valley Middle school (which made the above necessary) allows you to enter infractions using the student's ID number or name, whichever you prefer.

These changes have also forced a change in which data moves from computer to computer at schools that are using Full Networking. Full Networiking schools need to be sure that all computers are update as soon as possible if any computer is updated. We strongly recomend that you update a "Publisher's" computer first.

This year, we have found that many of you are returning to work from summer break only to find that your district IT people have completely reformatted your hard drives. As a result, archived data from last year is no longer there. If you were using either full or simple networking last year, we are often able to find last year's data on your file server. We have programmed the software to check for a missing archive of last year's data and restore it to your computer. This will occur automatically, however, your program has always been programmed to remove the old data files from your shared folder after October 10. This new routine will be handy next year. And if you install this update before 10-10-2007, it will set you up with an archive of last year's data if you don't already have one.

Some schools would like their attendance lists sorted by grade Level. There is a check box on the "Print Task Manager" window that will allow you to do this. It was discovered that when it was checked that although the lists were sorted by grade Level, they were not separated by consequence. This has been fixed.

Also, for schools with full networking, we found that if an "Editor" was entering infractions and one of the infractions was identical to an infraction that had already been processed by the "Publisher" the software would lock up after notifying the user that the two entries were the same. This has been fixed.

Although this capability has been available for some time now, it was only recently discovered that when selecting Honor Levels in the Groups Window, the lists would appear to be empty unless the aliases contained the words: "one", "two", etc. This has been corrected. Schools who use aliases for their Honor Levels should update their software at this time.

Also added to the student record window is a drop down list showing not only the day a student could be back on Honor Level One but the days back on levels two and three if appropriate.

You can also access the new report from "Data Analysis".

You can print summaries for any group of students from the groups button, but you will not view the report before it is printed from there. The software will skip reports for students who have no entries in their discipline record.

It is no longer necessary to re-launch HLS when you want to access archived data. Simply wait a few seconds and the Archive Assistant will automatically re-launch the program itself.

A special request from Showalter Middle School has been added that tells the Web Page Engine to create Honor Level Lists for each of your grade levels.

A special request from Port Susan Middle School has been added that allows you to add a special message to the "Welcome Back" to Honor Level One slip. You can enter the line of text you want to add to the slip in the "Site Editor." Click on the "Options #1" tab at the top.